Valentine’s Day Oneshot #1: "Ringo no Asobikata" ("Playing with Apples") by Kumiko Kandachi
Thank you all for your patience. We will now get our Valentine’s long-weekend one-shot party under way! We have four one-shots for this party ranging from a sweet fairytale to a dark cautionary tale. We’ll start the festivities with a slightly psychological story. This one was a lot of fun to translate.Links to “Ringo no Asobikata”: (PDF) (Zip) Tomorrow we will have a oneshot featuring my favorite shoujo trope! Continue reading Valentine’s Day Oneshot #1: "Ringo no Asobikata" ("Playing with Apples") by Kumiko Kandachi
January 2014 Statistics and Announcements
January went pretty well. We finished “Magnolia” and “Wild Wing”. I wanted to get some of “Rex Fabula” completed, but I didn’t have time to do the translations. However, image editing continued in the background, so progress is being made. Anyhow, here are some statistics from last month: Top 5 Releases: Magnolia Chapter 38 Kanojo ni Naru Hi Another Chapter 2 Wild Wing Chapter 4 Magnolia Chapter 37 Oneshot: Kuma-san to Issho Top 10 Visiting Countries USA (CA, NY, MA, WA, FL) Canada France Indonesia Germany Malaysia Australia Italy Singapore Russia (Greetings, Russian!) And now for an announcement: I have … Continue reading January 2014 Statistics and Announcements
"Baraou no Souretsu" Chapter 3
Finally, wrapping up this month’s releases, we have the third chapter of “Baraou no Souretsu”. This series gets better and better to me. I love it! I’ve been reading up on the history of Richard III and the War of the Roses, so I’m excited to see how Kanno-sensei will reinterpret was little is know about that time. What I do know is that it was a brutal time. Lots of people, nobles and peasants, were killed, and there was treachery within the royal family and nobility. The story is still at a place before Shakespeare’s play about Richard III … Continue reading "Baraou no Souretsu" Chapter 3
"Pochamani" Chapter 11
As stated before, this is the last chapter of “Pochamani” that Crimson Flower will translate. After reading this chapter, I think it will be clear to most people why this a good and natural place to end the story. I really don’t understand why the series was expanded from here other than for money. It would have been a really sweet short series. Anyhow, for my own sake I want to end here because I don’t want my beautiful memories of this series stained by the ridiculous shark jumping that happens after this. We have no intention of passing the … Continue reading "Pochamani" Chapter 11
"Pochamani" Chapter 10
Continuing on with the resolution of the Valentine’s Day incident… Haha! Part of me wishes Tsumugi would beat the crap out of Yuri. But Tsumugi’s a gentle girl, so she handles it the way she handles everything else. And without much delay, on to the release!Links to “Pochamani” Chapter 10: (PDF) (Zip) Next up will be “Pochamani” Chapter 11! Continue reading "Pochamani" Chapter 10
New Short Series: "Megane no Incubus-kun" (The Incubus and the Magical Glasses") Chapter 1
This is the last of the typical shoujo high school love-train series we’re going to do. I guess you could say since a supernatural being is involved, it’s already not that typical, but still, somehow this feels especially “big-eyed” to me. I chose this short-series because I like the guy — calm, smart, introverted, megane … >_> . I don’t care much the female MC. She the typical bubbly brainless girl who’s going to confess to the popular sempai she’s been crushing on. She remind me of Shouko from “Ore to Atashi”. Ugh… go away. Get off my megane, you … Continue reading New Short Series: "Megane no Incubus-kun" (The Incubus and the Magical Glasses") Chapter 1
"Kanojo ni Naru Hi — Another’ Chapter 2
It’s been a while since our last release. Most of the releases that we are working on are over 40-pages and therefore require more time than usual to complete. Anyhow, we’re chugging along now, so hopefully we’ll get back to our average 2 releases/week schedule. Here is the second chapter of “Kanojo ni Naru Hi — Another”. I like how this story begins by focusing on friendship and self-acceptance (regardless of gender) first. I guess I say this because it’s clear Sagara got in lots of fights before emergence because he didn’t like being small and feminine looking even as … Continue reading "Kanojo ni Naru Hi — Another’ Chapter 2
Crimson Flower’s Plans for 2014
Now that we’ve said what we aren’t going to do, let’s get on to what we are going to do. We are only adding one new monthly series. Everything else added will be bi-monthly or quarterly. We are limiting the number of monthly series so we can do more oneshots and short series. So here it goes: Monthly Series “Baraou no Souretsu” “Kisu ni Renzoku” “P + JK” The difficulty of scanlating this series outweighs the goodness. Hopefully since it’s popular in Japan it’ll get licensed here. It’s very tame in terms of age-gap series, so I don’t see why … Continue reading Crimson Flower’s Plans for 2014
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